[wideawake]

Sheen appears to be doing two things here: emphasizing Lorre's Jewish heritage as if it was a meaningful point of controversy (which is a classic anti-Semitic move in and of itself) and implying that Lorre is deliberately concealing his ethnic background from ignorant Gentiles (also a classic anti-Semitic move). Yet a third aspect is that he has lied about Lorre's actual birth name, adjusting it to make it sound even more stereotypically Jewish. Another anti-Semtic nuance.

I was pointing out the utter hypocrisy of his anti-Semitic rhetoric - that he himself has adopted an Irish stage name that completely effaces his strongly Hispanic birth name. If it is disingenuous and sinister for Charles Levine to become Charles Lorre, how much more so is it for Carlos Estevez to become Charles Sheen?

Moreover, Lorre is not exactly a non-Jewish name in the popular mind. It was the stage name of Laszlo Loewenstein - Peter Lorre - who was famously a Jewish actor who permanently left the Austria of his birth to become a US citizen due in large part to Nazi persecution.

Levine is not concealing his heritage at all when he goes by the last name Lorre - while Estevez is manifestly concealing his.

[antiRepublicrat]

So I think you answered my question, Charlie went Mel crazy.